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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by gosub100 on Sunday January 26, 2025 @10:38PM (#42837163)
The sonic boom limited them to only flying over the sea. They could technically fly at any airport that handles large passenger jets. But if you fly supersonic over land you will piss off everyone below you.
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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by tonyedgecombe on Monday January 27, 2025 @02:26AM (#42838310)
Something tells me that wouldn’t have been a problem if Concord had been made by Boeing.
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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by gambiting on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:28AM (#42838735)
Boeing knows how to make sonic booms that don't shatter windows?
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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by RugnirViking on Monday January 27, 2025 @04:59AM (#42839292)
I believe the idea of the parent comment is that Boeing knows how to get the government to let them shatter windows
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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by mrguyorama on Monday January 27, 2025 @04:18PM (#42845739)
We tried.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests

The outcomes were SUBSTANTIALLY worse than the US government expected. The results of this study are why even war planes rarely go supersonic over the continental US.

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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by themadturk on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @06:36PM (#42859581)
I remember the sonic boom over the Seattle area in the summer of 2010 when Obama was in town. A seaplane accidentally violated the 10 mile exclusion zone around Air Force 1 at Boeing Field and two F-15s were scrambled from Portland International Airport (Oregon National Guard operates the fighters tasked with protection from Northern California to the Canadian border). It was quite exciting.
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Re:The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed by bragr on Monday January 27, 2025 @02:44PM (#42844860)
Boeing did have a competing design, the Boeing 2707, however is was cancelled for the same market and economic reasons that Concorde struggled with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_2707

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